Process of making candy baskets



April 24, 1928. 1,667,335

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Application filed m 1, 1920.1 serial no. 119.9 5. 3

This invention relates to a process of manufacturing candy baskets and. similar candy products of ornamental design. The first step in the process is to prepare the candy mixture. A batch may consist of thirteen pounds of cane sugar, two pounds of glucose, and one teaspoonful of cream of tartar. This is heated to 345 decrees F., the heat varying according to the altitude, that just given being suitable to Boise, Idaho; When sufliciently cooked to expel the proper amount of water for crystallization of the sugar, it is removed from the fire. The time of removal from the fire is determined by the judgment of a skilled candy maker. When cooked suiliciently to produce a stick candy mixture, the batch is transferred to marble slabs and there cut into as many portions as the number of colors desired in the baskets and each portion is given a distinct color by the use of suitable pigments.

The next step in the process consists in gathering together the portions of the batch and kneading them, and then placing the kneaded batch on a pulling table, subjecting the same to heat, and rolling the same into the form of a strand of the desired diameter.

Molds, selected according to size of, baskets desired are placed on the pulling table and the inside of the molds are very lightly greased with cocoa butter which enables the baskets to be discharged from the molds readily when cold. At this point the actual work of making the baskets begins and it must proceed with great speed, dexterity and skill, or the colors will run and ruin not A only the baskets but the batch of candy as well, or the candy will lose its plasticity and the work of coiling or weaving the candy into baskets will be interfered with and the materials wasted.

Four workmen are employed in the simplest process. The first man draws out candy from the batch to the desired size of strand. The second man coils or weaves the strand of candy into the mold beginning in the center at the bottom of the mold and strands prepared by the first man. The

basket.

fourth man maintains the handles place uponthe handle molds and removes the baskets from the'imolds,-by first removing the handle mold bygently pressing inward lyagainst the legs of the horse'shoeshaped mold to contract the same; thenthe come plete basket is removed by picking the basket mold up in one handandtippmg the basket out of the saidmold intowthe' other hanrh Theentire batelris worked into completed baskets inabout one hour. [After the baskets are thus completed they are orna: mented in. any desireddesign; So. far as known no competitor has been able to make such perfect and beautiful baskets,-nor to make any successfully and without profit killing waste. .5 i I The invention. comprises also other features, the novelty of which will be hereinafter more fully. described in the specification and specifically indicated in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure .1 shows the mode of coiling a candystrand into a basket form in a mold, the mold and candy batch being shown in side elevation,

Figure 2 is a plan View illustrating the step shownin Figure 1, I

Figure 3 shows the step of forming the handle,

Figure 4 is a sectional fragmentary view of the mold for the handle, 7

Figure 5 shows the method of removing a completed basket from the/mold,

Figure 6 shows the step followed in affixing the handle,

Figure 7 shows the completed basket with handle,

Figure 8 shows the finished basket after ornamenting.

In Figure 1 the numeral 1 indicates a bowl of concavo-convex conformation and having its walls suitably shaped to form the coil of the basket body. The bowl is first lightly greased with cocoa butter to prevent the candy adhering to the walls. The strand of colored candy 2 at'the time it is coiled into the mold' still retains suflicient heat to be plastic and is started as a coil i the center of the bottom of the bowl and coiled outwardly and upwardly against the concave walls to the desired height of the The handle is next formed by the use of the form 3 which is of horseshoe outline and is provided with a concave channel,

as shown att s-in- Eigure/L Ar pair. of the strands: 2.v are twisted or bnaided ,toform the handle and are laid around the form 3, in the channel 4 thereof as will be evident from Figure 5 and separated at their ends and united to the basket body, the oper' ation being completed while the basket stilL remains in the bowl as shown in Figure 3,

When the completed baskethaschilled and: the Whole structure is firm the handle form pose'drelation;against the wa'llzof the mold, and. permitting the arranged coils to cool. before. removali fitom the mold.

2:v The. PROCESS" of making: candy; baskets which comprises preparing a. candy batch, maintaining; the same at: a: tempenatune to initially in the bottom of a concave mold and then upwardly in the mold and disposingtlie upwardly directed coils in mutually superposed relation against the Wall of the mold.

3. The process of making candy baskets which comprises coiling a candy strand, While heated to a degree to render it plastic, initially in the-bottom of a concave mold, and. disposing the-coils in, mutually superposed relation against the-wall of the mold, sijlpporting,another strand in arcuate form witlrits ends in juxtaposition to theuppermost coilproduced by the preceding step, anduniting the said; ends of; the last men.- tioneds'. strand, WllilQ' plastic, to the said uppenmost coil, whereby! to provide a handle for the basket body produced by the coiling step; a

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures.

ARIS VA RK-AS. NIGKVARKAS. JAMES B, VARKAS. JAMES PAXON. 

